[a_e_k]

From the linked post, it didn't read like a separate KV cache was needed:

> The draft models seamlessly utilize the target model's activations and share its KV cache, meaning they don't have to waste time recalculating context the larger model has already figured out.

[coder543]

That's great news. That has not been the case with other MTP implementations like Qwen3.5, but I see the section in the article saying Google introduced some architectural optimizations to make this possible.